RMBS

The commodities and listed derivatives firm under the guise of former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine said today that it has taken steps to expanding its capital markets and institutional sales teams with the firm’s recent slew of new hires.

The servicing-related consent orders that the nation’s megabanks signed to appease banking regulators could impact smaller servicers too, according to consultants at Newbold Advisors.

Integrated Asset Services (IAS) appointed Paul Sveen, a residential mortgage and structured finance business executive, as its chief executive officer.

Ambac Assurance Corp.’s rehabilitation plan won’t take effect in May as planned, meaning that frozen claims on roughly $50 billion of risky assets will remain unpaid until further notice.

Residential delinquencies have stabilized and charge-offs have eased, and the second dip in home prices has not been remotely as severe as its older twin. Nonetheless, enormous pools of home equity loans that in fact have little or no home equity standing behind them continue to sow doubts about the health of the nation's largest banking companies.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) appointed Marcia Davies as Chief of Staff, effective immediately.

Clayton Holdings partnered with MBSData, which provides accurate and timely deal and loan-level information on public non-agency MBS, to offer new loan-level data risk identification analytics as well as enhanced reporting solutions to fixed-income mortgage sector investors.

One of the gross oversimplifications of the mortgage boom and bust is that banks were more inclined to make risky loans because they were able to get them off their books through securitization. In fact, one of the most troublesome categories of bubble-era lending has been sitting on banks' balance sheets all along.

For years esoteric ABS kept its little brother status in a securitization market that was largely dominated by more conventional asset classes.

CoreLogic and Asset Securitization Report sponsored a Web seminar called Today's Best Practices in RMBS Due Diligence. The event was moderated by Michael Stanton, executive vice president for SourceMedia's capital markets division.